The Sedan club should be bought by the Reims investment banker Guy Cotret, the ex-president of Auxerre and Paris FC who must be auditioned this week with his two partners by the CNOSF, we learned on Tuesday from a source close to the file.
With the hope of maintaining in National a club relegated administratively, the three investors would buy the shares of the current president Marc Dubois, and would undertake to absorb the debt of 900,000 euros, said this source. They have the ambition to build a budget of 3.2 million euros if the CSSA, 7th in the last National championship, but excluded from the national championships by the DNCG, were drafted.
Supported by Francis Roumy, the president of the club between 1989 and 2001, the future owners have seized the CNOSF which must audition them by the end of the week, continues this same source. They will be defended by the lawyer who helped avoid the administrative descent of Bordeaux a year ago. More recently, he had accompanied the maintenance of the Berrichonne de Châteauroux in National.
Guy Cotret, who had already wanted to buy the CSSA when the club was liquidated in 2013, was president of Paris FC (2003-2012), Auxerre (2013-2017) and Niort (2020). The businessman was also president of the Union of French Professional Clubs (UCPF) and a member of the LFP.
